Question

Alexis is a sick child who makes frequent visits to the hospital to get her shots. one day she and her mother drive past the hospital and alexis begins to cry. she repeatedly says, "mommy, i don't want to see the doctor." in this example, the conditioned stimulus would be _____.

Answer 1

I believe the answer is: the hospital

Conditioned stimulus refers to a stimulus that already become a trigger to a certain response due to the process of classical conditioning. From the example above, alexis start to cry after she saw a hospital. Because of this, we can say that the sight of hospital act as the trigger the elicit the response.